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| "Jiggle" TV |
--ex: Charlie's Angels
--retreat from relevance
--centered around bawdy humor and sexual gratification |
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| "Quality Audience" |
--young adults for network O & O's |
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| Affiliates |
--owned by a company, not by a network
--local broadcaster that carries some or all of the programming of a certain network
--often buy programming from other sources, like syndicates |
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| O & O's |
--Owned and operated stations
--these are owned by the network with which it is associated |
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| Off-Network Syndication |
--go through networks and get sales rights after 5 years
--networks hogged increasing percentage of syndication profits |
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| First run syndication |
--bypass networks, sell directly to individual stations
--limited outlets in major markekts where the networks dominate |
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| UHF |
--Dates back to 50's
--more station slots, but fewer listeners
--reception problems because of limited range
--all sets required to have UHF antenna by '64 |
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| Fin/Syn (1971) |
--Financial Interest and Syndication Rules
--limited net shares of syndication profits
--boom to independent companies: Tandem (Lear), MTM enterprises (Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker) |
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| PTAR (1970) |
--Prime Time Access Rule
--limited number of hours of network programming (3 hrs between 7 and 11)
--opened primetime to independent producers, but mostly game shows |
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| Live-On-Tape Production |
--Late 50's, early 60's
--3 camera film system: higher cost, faster, limited style palette, have to shoot in studio
--single camera: higher cost, slower, expanded style palette, remote shooting |
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| Newton Minnow |
--called TV a "vast wasteland"
--chairman of the FCC |
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| "Turn toward relevance" |
--in 1970's, there was concern about O + O's, as well as the 18-49 year old demographic
--needed to pull in young adults for network owned and operated stations
--brought in new producers like Lear, MTM, and Smother's Brothers
--mix of entertainment and social consciousness
--spoke to oppositional concerns |
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| Payola Scandal |
--record companies would pay off DJ's to play certain music, presented without acknowledgment of this payment
--led to increase in format radio (top 40) |
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| Postwar Radio DJ's |
--Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack
--direct audience address
--"Hard sell" advertising
--African American vernacular |
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| Transistor Radio |
--led to more mobile listeners
--led to more listening alone (Breakout) |
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| Examples of exploitation cinema |
--Youth: Rebel without a cause
--Women: Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
--African Americans: Blacula
--Gays: Boys in the Band |
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| Exploitation Cinema |
--cheap
--sensational content: sex, nudity, drugs, violence, gore
--marketed at narrower audiences (exploited a particular demographic) |
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| Social Problem Films |
--social persecution (Three Brave Men)
--Wounded Veterans (Bad Day at Black Rock)
--Abortion (Blue Denim)
--Drug Addiction (Hatful of Rain) |
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| Widescreen Cinema |
--called cinemascope
--response to TV, which had become cheap and easy
--clip: Will Success spoil Rock Hunter? |
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| Red Scare Films |
--The Red Menace (anti communism)
--Invasion of the Body Snatchers (scifi us vs. them)
--Johnny Guitar (subversive) |
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| HUAC Hearings |
--Persecution of Hollywood directors during the red scare
--the "Big Ten" refused to testify
--threats of censorship, boycotts
--studio blacklists
--led to changes in content: anti communism loss-leaders, scifi "us" vs. "them", Subversive "witch hunt" films |
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| Paramount Decision (1948) |
--existing distribution scene in violation of antitrust laws
--companies/studios could no longer own theaters
--ends vertical integration |
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| Classic Network Era |
--spot/magazine advertising
--Hollywood (use of external producers with desire for syndication)
--Filmed (Telefilm productions)
--Cooperation/Competition between TV and Cinema |
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| Quiz Show Scandal |
--revelation that the game shows were rigged, contestants given answers by producers |
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| Kinescope |
--recording a television program by filming the picture from a video monitor |
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| Live Television Programming |
--news and sporting events
--comedy variety shows (Milton Berle)
--Quiz Shows
--Anthology Dramas: new play each week, changing cast and writers, prestige programming, adaptations, production challenges with live switching ("Marty" clip) |
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| Electronic Television |
--RCA, The Story of Television
--RCA, Black and White
--Limited Relsease in late 30's
--Postwar rollout
--color delayed until 1960's
--VHF band (limited channels)
--liscensing priority went to network stations |
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| Mechanical Television |
--Nipkow disc
Drawbacks
--image quality: limited resolution, picture blurring
--prone to malfunction
--limited support from federal regulators |
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| War-themed Radio Programming |
--war related themes in domestic programming (Superman vs. the Nazis)
--government produced programming (Treasury Star Parade)--war stamps albums. "This is our enemy"
--Voice of America (foreign propaganda)
--Armed Forces Radio Service for US troops (jubilee) |
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| War Films |
--Combat America (1943, Clark Gable): soldiers from different backgrounds (European) fighting for same thing
--Why We Fight (1942): Frank Capra, "Prelude to War", US army signal corps
--Private Buckaroo (1942): Universal Pictures, musical comedy makes it look exciting to enlist |
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| Office of War Information |
--headed by Elmer Davis
--facilitate creation of an informed and intellignt understanding of the war effort
--made suggested, coordinated industry to ensure that public gets a similar message
--Branches: Radio Bureau, Motion Pictures Bureau, News Bureau, Press Bureau, Domestic Branch
--concerned with American image in films going overseas |
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| Radio News Reporting |
--Edward Murrow, live shortwave broadcasts from London
--makes the war tangible, brings it home |
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